The California Nurses Association/National Nurses United is mounting a major door to door campaign in October throughout California in a push for a state Medicare For All bill. SB 562 was passed by the Senate but blocked from a vote in the state Assembly by Democrat Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Martha Kuhl is Secretary Treasurer for National Nurses United.

[Martha Kuhl]: “The Healthy California Campaign is going to be in every district, 80 Assembly districts in California to knock on every door in those districts to talk to people about guaranteeing healthcare to everyone in California.

What nurses in California – what California nurses associations want and what the Healthy California Campaign wants is for the bill to be released early next y ear at the first opportunity in the legislature and move forward so that we can guarantee health care for all Californians.”

Democrats have big majorities in the state legislature Democrat Jerry Brown is governor. So if the Democratic Party supports Medicare For All guaranteed health care they could make it happen in California. But California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon is blocking it from a vote. Kuhl says the people of California have the power to make this happen

[Martha Kuhl]: “People in our community are aware that our Democratic legislature is holding up the right to healthcare in California. We need them to understand that this is possible and that we need them to get involved in the campaign.

And to understand the idea that they have a right to healthcare and that there is a way to get there.”

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